Really? You're part of the quantum gravity team?

是吗？你是量子引力团队的人吗？

I adopt a Euclidian approach to quantum gravity to describe the beginning of the universe.

我采用欧几里得量子引力学来描述宇宙的起源。

Dr. Linkletter is working on an intriguing theory of quantum gravity.

林克莱特博士在研究一个有趣的理论关于量子引力。

Hang on a second. Loop quantum gravity clearly offers more testable predictions than string theory.

等等，环量子引力明显比弦理论提供了更多可证的预测。

No, there isn't. Only loop quantum gravity calculates the entropy of black holes.

不是这样的，只有环量子引力能算出黑洞的熵值。

With string theory, we can try to answer some questions about quantum gravity that have been puzzling physicists for decades.

有了弦理论，我们可以试着去解释一些困扰物理学家数十年的量子重力论的难题。

In October 1981, I went to Moscow for a conference on quantum gravity.

1981 年 10 月，我去莫斯科参加量子引力会议。

Why? Her research methodology is sloppy, she's unjustifiably arrogant about loop quantum gravity, and to make matters worse, she's often mean to me.

怎么了？她的研究方法漏洞百出，在说圈量子引力理论时盲目自大，更糟的是她对我刻薄得要命。

But implies a breakdown of general relativity, and  really a theory of quantum gravity is needed.

但这意味着广义相对论的崩溃，而实际上需要量子引力理论。

And so a theory of quantum gravity would hopefully solve the many mysteries of black holes.

因此，量子引力理论有望解决黑洞的诸多谜团。

Our models of the universe take us to the very earliest moments, but without a theory of quantum gravity, we don't know what started it all.

我们的宇宙模型将我们带到了最早的时刻，但是没有量子引力理论，我们根本不知道是什么让它开始的。

And to create enough energy to test quantum gravity, the experiment would actually end up turning into a black hole.

为了产生足够的能量来测试量子引力，实验最终实际上会变成黑洞。

Some of the physicists namely string theorists, they come up with theories which try to explain some of the discrepancies between quantum mechanics and gravity called quantum gravity theories.

一些物理学家，即弦理论家，他们提出了一些理论，试图解释量子力学和引力之间的一些差异，称为量子引力理论。

From 1975 onward I therefore started to develop a more powerful approach to quantum gravity based on Richard Feynman's idea of a sum over histories.

因此，从 1975 年起，我开始根据理查德·费曼的历史求和思想，开发一种更强大的量子引力方法。

However, the methods that I and other people were using in 1974 were not able to answer questions such as whether singularities would occur in quantum gravity.

然而，我和其他人在 1974 年使用的方法无法回答诸如量子引力是否会出现奇点等问题。

But quantum gravity isn't the only thing we observe but don't understand, there are also the major puzzles of dark energy and dark matter which seem to make up 95% of the Universe.

但量子引力并不是我们唯一观察到但不理解的东西，还有暗能量和暗物质等重大谜团， 它们似乎构成了宇宙的 95%。

Really we need a theory of quantum gravity, and people think that if we could add the laws of  quantum mechanics to general relativity this could explain what is going on in the centre of a black  hole.

我们真的需要一个量子引力理论，人们认为如果我们能把量子力学定律加到广义相对论中，这就可以解释黑洞中心发生的事情。

They are really interesting because if there is a theory of quantum gravity then there should be a gravity particle called a graviton which is a tiny little packet of gravity: a quantization of the gravitational waves.

它们真的很有趣， 因为如果存在量子引力理论， 那么就应该存在一个叫做引力子的引力粒子，它是一小包引力：引力波的量化。